Fast forward to April, and for RCA's chairman, Brian, the last two months have been the biggest torture of his life, and if he could, he would rather go to jail for this time.

With the outbreak of RCA's Taoyuan factory pollution, media and environmental protection agencies from all over the world have joined in, criticizing RCA's unconscionable pollutant discharge, and even the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been affected by the pond fish, and has just said a few words for its own company, and it has been criticized by the global media.

Regardless of the explanation, RCA's malicious discharge of sewage has polluted hundreds of square kilometers of land, threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of people above the land.

The British BBC TV even sent a team to Taoyuan to interview many cancer patients, conducted a comprehensive interview with the local land, water quality, and plants, and made a one-hour video.

A few little girls under the age of 10 were covered with skin and bones because of cancer.

A 3-year-old boy was forced to undergo puncture treatment because of cancer, crying out "Mommy" in pain.

The husband and wife of the family are both terminally ill and are treated for the sake of the child, and the grandfather of the family goes out on crutches to look for work, just so that he can be able to raise his grandson Chéng Rén in the future.

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There are too many heart-wrenching pictures, according to the original urine nature of the American media, they don't care about people outside their own country, and it is better to watch the Nicks game if they have this time.

However, due to some special reasons, CBS and ABC TV stations repeatedly broadcast the pollution situation in Taoyuan, and newspapers and media from all sides also joined in, criticizing RCA for refusing to pay for the treatment of these patients.

Some environmental groups have repeatedly gone to the door of the White House in Washington, demanding that the government intervene in the matter and severely punish the companies responsible.

And most seriously, the World Health Organization has sent commissioners to investigate, preparing to deliberately designate this pollution as one of the biggest environmental disasters in human history, once it is in the history books, RCA will be remembered for 10,000 years.

Affected by this, RCA's stock price plummeted continuously, and at the same time, because several of its major factories were all closed, resulting in a complete collapse of the TV, radio, and picture tube business, many dealers and customers picked up the contracts in their hands and filed lawsuits with the court.

The secretary walked in and said, "Sir, I just received a call from Welch, Vice President of General Electric Company, who asked you to meet at the Empire State Building revolving restaurant at noon tomorrow. ”

"Welch?" Brad was stunned, now that RCA had become notorious and beaten, he didn't understand what the vice president of General Electric was doing when he came to see him.

However, etiquette is still needed, General Electric is one of the top ten super-giant companies in the world, and RCA is only a fraction of other companies.

Brad nodded and said, "You reply to him immediately, and I will be on time." ”

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General Electric and RCA are both top companies in the first echelon of the United States, and the two sides have both cooperation and competition in business, and Brad and Welch are not friends, but they have met several times over the years at various business or political gatherings.

The Empire State Building was built in 1931, the tallest building in the world at the time, and the revolving restaurant is located on the highest floor, rotating every 5 minutes, and offers almost all of New York's beauty, including Central Park, the Statue of Liberty, the Hudson River, and more.

However, Brad was not in the mood to look at the beautiful scenery outside, and under the guidance of the waiter, Brad looked around, found that there was no problem, and knocked on the door and walked in.

"What's going on?" Welch arrived in the private room early, and was chatting with Xu Zhi and the others when a man suddenly came in, and when someone lifted his hat, took off his sunglasses and mask, he found that it was Brad.

Welch asked, "Bryde, why are you dressed like that?"

Brad shook his head and smiled bitterly: "During this time, I have become more popular than Hollywood stars, and I am often surrounded by a bunch of reporters at home, at the door of the company, and on the road, and even my family is affected, and now I can only sneak out like this." ”

"I see!" Welch also understood, it is indeed not easy for the CEO of a top American company to be forced to be like this. If it is in normal times, there must be a large number of bodyguards to protect you, but this time you come here to meet, it is obviously better to keep a low profile.

Welch introduced: "Brad, this is Currie, the vice president of Goldman Sachs."

"Hello!" Brad greeted Currie with a handshake.

"Welch, what are you asking me to come for today?" he didn't believe that the other party had just come to ask him out for tea, and he had brought a super-rich man and a Goldman Sachs.

Welch smiled: "Brad, I know that the current pollution time is a big blow to RCA, and I am here to help you solve this problem?"

"Oh, I don't know what price I'm going to pay?" Brad hit the point directly, the top of General Electric and Goldman Sachs suddenly appeared, it was impossible just to help him, it was more than necessarily a plan, but these two companies have far more influence in the United States and even the world than RCA, and they are willing to help, maybe they can really solve this matter.

"I just like people like you who are direct. Welch smiled, "I wonder if Brad would you be interested in joining us at General Electric?"

"I'm joining General Electric?" Brad was stunned, but soon realized that the other party was obviously not for him, so he said, "Do you want to buy RCA? for NBC?"

"NBC is really important to us, but this is a comprehensive takeover that includes all of RCA's other businesses," Welch said.

"You want to do the TV business, and once you take over the RCA, you have to take over the pollution in Asia as well. Brad said.

Welch smiled: "Of course, in fact, the biggest trouble in this matter is the RCA company's responsibility to know, which was bitten by the Wanwan official, resulting in several failed negotiations, but as long as the RCA company is acquired, then all the original positions will be transferred to the department of General Electric, and we will also arrange a new negotiation team to be responsible for this matter, and the new team will not be involved in the pollutant discharge**, so the negotiation will not be too passive!"

And as long as the acquisition is successful, our company and Goldman Sachs will also lobby Congress together to intervene in this matter with a more active attitude, this time ** is no longer a business issue, but a political **, only the US government is involved, can this matter be resolved as soon as possible!"

"I see!" Brad nodded, he had always suspected that someone was behind this **, but he didn't know who it was, at this moment, he knew.

However, he did not show it, but asked, "What about the hundreds of Americans who are trapped in Wanwan?"

With the serial reports of many media around the world, the nature of the pollution of Wanwan has changed, first of all, the polluted place is in the Chinese area, and even the mainland government has expressed its hope that the United States will be a responsible country!

And because the mainland and the United States established diplomatic relations in 1979, and the subsequent Western countries also participated, resulting in the complete failure of Wanwan's foreign policy, at this moment, a US company in the province of Wanwan a large amount of pollution, causing a huge environmental disaster, Wanwan Administration seized this opportunity, won a lot of sympathy points in the international community, even the US government in this diplomatic intervention is very passive.

In the past two months, after interrogation and investigation, the Wanwan police have successively approved the arrest of more than 30 American and more than 100 Chinese employees, and in the future, they will be charged with environmental damage and many other crimes.

On the other hand, the U.S. government is also an unusual headache, and they don't care about pollution, but hundreds of Americans are detained, and the domestic media and relatives of the detained employees come to protest at the door of the White House every few days, and after several diplomatic interventions, they have not made much progress.

In the past 1979, the Iranian hostages have caused the US government to lose too much face, although the nature of this time is different, but there must be innocent people among the people detained in Wanwan, if not rescued, it will only further reduce the prestige of President Carter, and this year is also a crucial year, because a new round of election is about to begin.

After several negotiations, the Wanwan government also found that RCA was obviously not willing to take responsibility, but only cared about the hundreds of American employees who were detained.

And the Wanwan authorities are naturally not stupid, these people are the biggest hole cards.

Welch said: "This matter is so big, someone has to stand up and pay the price, and I can guarantee that if there are no people involved in the pollutant discharge, they can return home safely." ”